There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman!
SAMUEL GOMPERSThe right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
More Samuel Gompers Quotes
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Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
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To make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
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W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
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Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . .
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To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
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The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
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The right to say the things which convey the new and yet unexpected thoughts, the right to say things, even though they do a wrong.
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We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.
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Let social busybodies and professional “public morals experts” in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.
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No lasting gain has ever come from compulsion.
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
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